Favorite Bad Movies

And "Take It Easy" by Andy Taylor, going hard rock on his solo debut @Huggy!!! The video starts w/some stilted dialogue between Mitch & Janet that surely indicates how the whole film is going to go, but this is a fucking great song.

 

That's on the very short list of worst, least enjoyable films I've ever seen in a theatre (or anywhere). I was in college when it came out and digging Tarantino via Reservoir Dogs (this was well before I had any idea he'd disavowed the script credit for Natural Born Killers) and this was of course just a few months after OJ, so I was super hyped to see it. Other than Rodney Dangerfield's terrifying turn as the evil Dad, it was a disgusting, exploitative experience. Oliver Stone, of course, has all the subtlety and tact of a fucking sledgehammer, and he turned the movie into everything he pretended to be criticizing. Many years later, I thought maybe I'd been too critical of it and missed the point in my dumb college years, so I watched it again in the middle of the night and it was just as awful. Thirty years later, as we continue reeling from the Trump years, you can make a case the movie was ahead of its time in terms of taking the mass media to task for glorifying violent nihilists. But Stone isn't smart enough to do anything other than accidentally stumble into his broken clock moment.

PS: My best buddy, a film studies major, loved it, so as always, YMMV.

 

Such an ugly, depressing movie. Though RDJ was amazing as the Aussie tabloid reporter. His idea to play him as an Aussie btw.

 

At the time, I wrote a column that almost nobody read (for a suburban Chicago "zine." Yeah, I'm old!) comparing NBK to "A Clockwork Orange," because of the large amounts of ultraviolence and the criticism of society both movies had. Needless to say, one of those movies is an all-time classic and the other ... well, it went the way of the zine. But I agree that Rodney Dangerfield's role (and his encounter with an aquarium) was very entertaining and out of character for him.

 

Face/Off
Con Air
Iron Eagle
The Last Dragon
The Fast and The Furious
Gone in 60 Secondsq
Commando

EDIT: didn’t read through the whole thread before posting, but feeling pretty validated on the Iron Eagle pick.

 

Gone in 60 Seconds is another one for me. When I catch it on cable I just get pulled into it.

And is The Last Dragon a good choice?
Sho'Nuff!

 

License to Drive. 24 percent on Rotten Tomatoes my ass.

Also Bad Teacher.

 

Where's your LeBaron, Freddy?

It's on the Criterion Channel now.

 

Spies Like Us.

 

What does KGB stand for?

 

Buckaroo Banzai feels like it was written by a teenager who is just throwing a bunch of stuff he thinks is cool against the wall and hoping some of it sticks. I enjoyed it anyway at the time and re-watched it a few years ago. The cast is actually pretty good with Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, and Clancy Brown. Don't even try to figure out what the heck is going on.

 

Feels like most of my favorite movies could be classified as "bad," but I'm OK to own that.

Youngblood tops my list - The notion that pillow-hands Rob Lowe can go back on the farm for 3 days, get stronger and learn to fight well enough to beat the ass of a big-time hockey enforcer is silly. But Cynthia Gibb ...